The processes that generate the images of photism are the result of an investigation into electro-photography. Kirlian photography or electro-photography uses high voltage electricity to generate responses onto film. A custom designed/built device extends this photographic process to create literal tracings of electricity conducting, charging and passing directly through film. The cameraless process occurs in complete darkness and the results are both unpredictable and invisible until the film is processed. Each resulting photograph is an event, not the documentation of an event. The photographic images that constitute the photism series are the result of an experimental mode for generating photographs - they embody indeterminacy; challenge photography's indexical relationship; and provide the photographic universe with new information.

 

Exhibitions:

 

2006     Festival Attitude, Magaza Bitola, Macedonia

2006     World Year of Physics Art Prize, Sydney, Australia

2006     photofugue: solo exhibition, SASA Gallery, Adelaide, Australia

2005     Photonova, Nexus Cabaret Space, Adelaide, Australia

2005     Concord, SASA Gallery, Adelaide, Australia

2003     Lume, Adelaide Central Gallery, Australia